Kids living in the U.S. who were born elsewhere are 59 percent less likely to have allergic diseases, but their risk increases with time spent in the country.
The obesity rate is 27.5 percent higher in New York City neighborhoods where the greatest proportion of people "like" television on Facebook.
It may be that "the tendency to have faith in conventional social constructs" can be generalized both to religion and the medical establishment.
Audio recordings made in exam rooms indicate that doctors "operate at an emotional distance" from overweight and obese patients.
Participants in a German study did not react well to videos depicting robot torture.
How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens
Bob Barker is a prophet.
Earning an obituary in the New York Times is generally a good marker for above-average longevity, as long as that success in life isn't accompanied by fame.
Our bodies anticipate the effects of beer, releasing euphoric signals even before alcohol gets into our blood. Hence, "It's so good, once it hits your lips, it's so good."
Exposed to very loud sounds, the inner ears of mice secreted a hormone that caused temporary hearing impairment but also protected their ears from further damage.
Is it okay to hit them (lightly)?
Participants played "pink noise" that was synchronized to their brain rhythms slept more deeply and had increased memory retention.
People who listened to classical music inside an fMRI machine had remarkably synchronized brain patterns that aren't seen in other contexts.
Researchers bred rats that couldn't get enough of their exercise wheels -- and isolated the genes that appear to motivate them.
Search terms implied that people are 24 percent less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track.
People who did equivalent amounts of running and walking saw the same degree of benefit in terms of blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease
People reported that cookies and chips they believed to be organic "tasted lower in fat and calories."
"Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now."
Beyond the basic anatomic reasons, there are unexpected correlations -- like that people who do not complete high school seem to lose an extra centimeter, and city people shrink less.
Members of the 64-and-older set whose blood is rich in dietary omega-3s lived an average of 2.2 years longer.